Railway-car.



PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904.

H. J. BAYARD. RAILWAY UAR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-13, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1- N0 MODEL.

No.772,909. Q PATENTEID OGT.18,1904.

' H. J. BAYAR'D. I

RAILWAY GAR.

-APILIGATION I ILBD 1933- 13, 1904.

' NO MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET2.

Patented October 18', 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HYRAM J. BAYARD, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,909, dated October18, 1904. y

Application filed February 13, 1904:. Serial No. 193,381. (No model.) i

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HYRAM J. BAYARD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in railway-cars, andparticularly in that class of suchcars which are designed for the atransportation of liquid freight; and the object of the invention is toprovide a car of this general character ofan improved and simplifiedconstruction which shall be adapted for carrying solid as well as liquidfreight, so as tobe better adapted for service than are cars of thiskind such as are in general use.

Theinvention consists in certain novel features of the construction,combination, and arrangement of the several parts ofthe im-' provedfreight-carwvhereby certain important advantages are attained and thedevice is rendered simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted andmore convenient for use, all as will be'hereinafter fully set forth. 1The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined intheclaims.

1n the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my improvements,Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a freight-car constructed accordingto my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken lengthwiseand vertically through one end portion of one of the liquid-carryingtanks of the improved car. Fig. 3 is a section taken transversely andvertically acrossone end portion of the platform of the car, showing theliquid-carrying tanks supported therein. Fig. 4 is a plan view showingone end portion of one of the liquidcarrying tanks and illustrating themeans for securing the same in place within the car-platform. Fig. 5 isa sectional detail view taken transversely through the liquid-carryin gtank and illustrating certain features of the means for securing thesame in place in the car-platform.

As shown in the views, 1 indicates the cartrucks, and 2 the platform,which is constructed with spaced metal strips 9 9, extended along itslateral and end edges, between which strips 9 are interposed woodenblocks 15, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and between the ends of suchwooden-blocks 15 there are produced sockets 3, adapted to receive stakesor projections 4, extended downward from the lower part of the car-body5, whereby the said car-body is removably supported on the platform andmay be lifted therefrom to permit of using the car as a platform-car ormay be replaced by a body of another type suitable for a different kindof freight.

6 6 indicate liquid-carrying tanks extended lengthwise along oppositesides of the carplatform and embedded therein beneath thefiooring, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, and saidtanks have shallow end portions 7extended within the platform above the car-trucks and deeper centralportions, which depend in the space central of the car between saidtrucks.

Each tank 6 is also provided with a filling- .vided another similar cockorvalve 11, and it will be obvious that by proper manipulation 'of thesecocks or valves ll and 12 the liquid contents of one or both of thetanks 6 6 may be drawn off. It will also be obviousthat when the centralcook or valve 12- is opened both tanks may be filled in unison throughthe inlet 8 of one tank, and when said central cock or valve is closedthe tanks may be separately filled, so that a different liquid may becarried in each tank. Each tank 6 is also provided at an end of the carwith a vent extended upward through the car-body and o'pening above theroof of the same for the discharge of fumes and vapors from thecontained liqulds and for affording proper ventilation and equalizationof pressures w thin the tanks, and suchvents comprise nipples 7,

produced on the upper wall of each tank, as seen in Figs. 2 and 4, inwhich nipples are to be engaged the projecting-lower ends of ventpipes14, extended upward within or adjacent to the end wall of the car-body 5to the roof thereof and having above said roof an open end surmounted bya cowl or similar device, as shown in Fig. 1. The engagement of thelower end of the vent-pipe 14 within nipple 7 is detachable, so thatwhen the car-body is lifted off from the platform the said lower end ofpipe 14 will be readily withdrawn from said nipple.

The shallow end portions 7 of the tanks 6 are substantially equal indepth to the depth or thickness of the platform 2, so that said endportions 7 of the tanks will be supported in the completed structureupon the cross beams or joists 13 13, commonly provided beneath theplatforms of cars, and in order to permit of securely holding the endsof the tanks to the ends of the platform 2 I prefer to cut away theinner strip 9 opposite the end of each tank, as seen in Figs. 2 and 1,and to let such end of the tank into the space between the inner andouter strips 9 9. I also provide, preferably, a metal plate or stirrup16, extended beneath the strips 9 9 and across the under side of the endof the tank, said stirrup being provided with an upturned outer flange17, riveted or otherwise secured to the outer strip 9 of the platformand being also provided at opposite ends with similar upturned flanges18 18, riveted or otherwise held to the inner strip 9 at opposite sidesof the tank. In this Way the tank is securely held at its ends to theframing of the platform, being rested on the stirrup 16, and it will beobvious that this structure greatly stiti'ens and strengthens theear-platform and permits of dispensing with certain of the longitudinalbeams commonly provided in said platform, so that an economy is effectedand increased strength attained.

From the above description of my invention it will be apparent that theimproved railwaycar constructed in accordance therewith is of anextremely simple and inexpensive nature and is of greatly-increasedstrength, while being at the same time adapted for the transportation ofsolid and liquid freight of various kinds, either separately ortogether, since one kind of liquid freight may be carried in one tankwhile another kind may be in the other tank, and it will also be obviousfrom the above description that the device is capable of considerablemodification without material departure from the principles and spiritof the invention, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood aslimiting myself to the precise form and arrangement of the several partsof the device as herein set forth in carrying out my invention inpractice.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secureby Letters latent, is-

1. A railway-car having a platform provided with a metal frame extendedalong its ends, a tank extended lengthwise of the platform and stirrupssecured to the metal frame at each end of the platform and on which theends of the tank are rested.

2. A railway-ear having a platform, liquidcarrying tanks extendedlengthwise of the platfori'n along the opposite sides thereof andprovided with inlets, and a discharge-pipe extended along the ends ofthe tanks and having a connection with each of said tanks and havingbetween its connection with each two tanks, a cock and at each end acock.

3. A railway-car having a platform, a tank extended beneath the platformand provided with an opening in its top, a. car-body removably supportedon the platform and a vent.- pipe extended up through the car-body withits lower end detachably engaged in the opening in the tank and itsupper end open and extended above the carbody.

Signed at Chicago this 16th day of December, 1903.

HYRAM J. BAYAHI \Vitnesses:

J. D. Cnrmxenn, C. CAPLINGER.

